Bible Trivia - 8/25/2008

Question: Which books is composed of five poems, each a chapter in length?

Answer: Lamentations.

Comments: Lamentations is not only comprised of poems, but the first four of the five poems are also acrostics. Each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order. The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet. The third has sixty-six verses, in which each three successive verses begin with the same letter. The fifth is not acrostic, but also has twenty-two verses.

Note: This image is a modern English acrostic of the word "Bible".